went over the mountain the Gilsom
Boys started for the wagon to see
what we had inside as the curtain
was down but Colwell drove on
and did not gratify therir curiosity
when we came to the forks of the
road we could all see that the travel
all went over the hills but we felt
very stongly impressed to go down
the canyon and so concluded to
do so and drove down we found the
road washed out in several places
and in one place we had to take our
horses off and draw the wagon by hand
some 40 feet to f keep from runing
of[f] a bank 30 feet into the creek but
we got through in safety but on
our arivel in Salina we learned that
had we taken the mountain road
we should fhave met Sam Gilsome
with three other men all armed
what the result would have been
had we met is not yet recorded
with regard to Ashley I will say
fefore I feft [left] I learned that they would
not have ^any^ election this year so all
the offices will hold over this was
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went over the mountain the Gilsom
Boys started for the wagon to see
what we had inside as the curtain
was down but Colwell drove on
and did not gratify their curiosity
when we came to the forks of the
road we could all see that the travel
all went over the hills but we felt
very stongly impressed to go down
the canyon and so concluded to
do so and drove down we found the
road washed out in several places
and in one place we had to take our
horses off and draw the wagon by hand
some 40 feet to keep from runing
of a bank 30 feet into the creek but
we got through in safety but on
our arivel in Salina we learned that
had we taken the mountain road
we shouldhave met Sam Gilsome
with three other men all armed
what the result would have been
had we met is not yet recorded
with regard to Ashley I will say
before I left I learned that they would
not have any election this year so all
the offices will hold over this was
"Letter to John Taylor and George Quayle Cannon, 20 August 1886," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 3, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/r8ZE